Dakota County: Trampoline park going to Burnsville

A proposed trampoline park is jumping from one Dakota County city to another.

The owners of Altitude Trampoline Park say they hope to open the recreation business in a Burnsville strip mall by March, instead of Mendota Heights as originally intended.

Curt Skallerup, the founder and operator of Altitude Trampoline Parks, said the company has finalized a lease for an 18,000-square-foot space at Burnhaven Mall, across from Burnsville Center. City council action is not needed because the business falls into a permitted use for the area, city officials said.

The company planned to open at an industrial area along Pilot Knob Road in Mendota Heights -- the council gave them the OK last month -- but it was unable to secure a lease for the building, Skallerup said.

Since the first Sky Zone opened in Las Vegas in 2004, indoor trampoline parks have popped up across the country. They arrived in Minnesota in 2010, when a Sky Zone franchise opened in Plymouth, followed by a second in Oakdale late last year. Zero Gravity opened in Mounds View last December.